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Dr Charlotte Pearson is a geoarchaeologist and dendrochronologist interested in developing new applications of the tree-ring record to examine past human and environmental interactions, improve chronological frameworks and synchronize multiple lines of paleoenvironmental evidence. Her current research focuses on new applications for analysis of carbon 14 in single tree-rings, dendrochronological approaches to the chronology of the Ancient Mediterranean and dendrochemical approaches to dating the onset of environmental disturbances (in particular volcanic eruptions). These topics combine in the 'Interdisciplinary Chronology of Civilizations Project', funded by the Malcolm H. Wiener Foundation, which builds on 45 years of dendrochronological research in the ancient Mediterranean by Peter Kuniholm to anchor fixed, annually resolved time-lines for archaeological and paleoenvironmental research back to 2500 BC. The project takes new approaches to anchoring floating tree-ring sequences from the region while also contributing directly to international efforts to improve the radiocarbon calibration curve, a critical resource for all users of the radiocarbon dating method. Charlotte gained her PhD at the University of Reading in the UK, before postdoctoral work at Cornell University. She has been at the University of Arizona since 2013. She teaches a General Education class (ANTH 204) in 'Culture, Climate and Catastrophe'.

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Courses
  • CCC
    Cultures, Catastrophe and Climate

Grants
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    Track 2 MRI: Acquisition of a mini carbon dating system for multi-millennial, multi-user sequences of annually resolved 14C and other high precision applications

    Principal Investigator (PI)

    2022

    $2.0M
    Active
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    Track 2 MRI: Acquisition of a mini carbon dating system for multi-millennial, multi-user sequences of annually resolved 14C and other high precision applications

    Principal Investigator (PI)

    2022

    $752.0K
    Active
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    ACcurate Temperature REconstructions Based On and Abrupt Climate Change Mapping in Tree-Rings from Ancient Bristlecone Pines, the Longest-Living Organisms in The World [ACTREAL]

    Principal Investigator (PI)

    2021

    $46.4K
    Active
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    Enhancing Shared Facilities for Archaeological Science at the University of Arizona

    Principal Investigator (PI)

    2016

    $200.1K
News
  • Researchers home in on Thera volcano eruption date

    2022

  • Researchers Unlock Secrets of the Past with New International Carbon Dating Standard

    2020

  • Tree Rings Could Pin Down Thera Volcano Eruption Date

    2020

  • Dating the Ancient Minoan Eruption of Thera Using Tree Rings

    2018

  • Radiocarbon Dating Gets a Postmodern Makeover

    2017

Publications (80)
Recent
  • Olive shrub buried on Therasia supports a mid-16th century BCE date for the Thera eruption

    2023

  • Mummy Labels: A Witness to the Use and Processing of Wood in Roman Egypt

    2023

  • Tree-rings reveal two strong solar proton events in 7176 and 5259 BCE

    2022

  • Climatic context of blue ring formation in high elevation bristlecone pine (Pinus longaeva DK Bailey).

    2022

  • Geochemical ice-core constraints on the timing and climatic impact of Aniakchak II (1628 BCE) and Thera (Minoan) volcanic eruptions

    2022

  • The Origin of Tree‐Ring Reconstructed Summer Cooling in Northern Europe During the 18th Century Eruption of Laki

    2022

  • Radiocarbon dating

    2021

  • Re-thinking Thera – tree-rings, radiocarbon and response in the second millennium BCE

    2021

  • Insights on the timing, global sulfate lifecycle and climate impact of Earth's largest (pre-) historic volcanic eruptions

    2021

  • Dendrochronology and radiocarbon dating

    2021

  • A millennium-long'Blue Ring'chronology from Bristlecone Pine as a record of volcanic forcing on climate

    2021

  • Discovery of a tsunami deposit from the Bronze Age Santorini eruption at Malia (Crete): impact, chronology, extension

    2021

  • New frontiers in tree-ring research

    2020

  • A late Holocene subfossil Atlantic white cedar tree-ring chronology from the northeastern United States

    2020

  • Securing timelines in the ancient Mediterranean using multiproxy annual tree-ring data

    2020

  • Annual variation in atmospheric 14C between 1700 BC and 1480 BC

    2020

  • Maximum latewood density records of Great Basin Bristlecone pine (Pinus Longaeva) in the White Mountains, California

    2020

  • The IntCal20 Northern Hemisphere radiocarbon age calibration curve (0--55 cal kBP)

    2020

  • Reply to Manning: Dating of Gordion tree-ring sequence still stands within a year of 745 BC

    2020

  • A new annual 14C dataset for calibrating the Thera eruption

    2020

  • Maximum latewood density records of the oldest trees in the world: Great Basin Bristlecone pine (Pinus Longaeva)

    2020

  • SHCal20 Southern Hemisphere calibration, 0–55,000 years cal BP

    2020

  • Differences in the Climate-Growth Relationship of Scots Pine: A Case Study from Poland and Hungary

    2019

  • Annual carbon-14 variability in tree-rings: Causes and Implications for the calibration curve.

    2019

  • Establishing a high‐resolution stratigraphy in the Holocene marine sequence of the ancient Theodosian harbor of Istanbul with the help of dendrochronology

    2019

  • Front Cover Image

    2019

  • Dating the methuselah walk bristlecone pine floating chronologies

    2019

  • A detailed investigation of pretreatment protocols for high precision radiocarbon measurements of annual tree-rings

    2019

  • Frost rings in 1627 BC and AD 536 in subfossil pinewood from Finnish Lapland

    2019

  • A preview of the IntCal19 radiocarbon calibration curves

    2018

  • Radiocarbon Dating and Intercomparison of Some Early Historical Radiocarbon Samples

    2018

  • Annual radiocarbon record indicates 16th century BCE date for the Thera eruption

    2018

  • Preliminary results from Laguna Minucúa: a potentially annually resolved record of climate and environmental change for the past∼ 5000 years in the Mixteca Alta of Oaxaca, Mexico

    2018

  • A 150 year record of annual Bristlecone Pine 14C from the second millennium BC

    2017

  • Volcanic Eruptions and Tree-Rings - Establishing Chronological Frameworks for Human and Environmental Interaction

    2017

  • Dendro-archeo-ecology in North America and Europe: re-purposing historical materials to study ancient human-environment interactions

    2017

  • Preliminary results from Laguna Minuc'ua a potentially annually resolved record of climate and environmental change for the past~ 5000 years in the Mixteca Alta of Oaxaca, Mexico

    2017

  • Beneath the Basilica of San Marco: New Light on the Origins of Venice

    2016

  • Of harbors and trees: The Marmaray contribution to a 2367-year oak-tree-ring chronology from 97 sites for the Aegean, east mediterranean, and black seas

    2015

  • Preface: Center for Mediterranean Archaeology and the Environment-Special Joint Issue of Radiocarbon and Tree-Ring Research

    2014

  • The olive-branch dating of the Santorini eruption

    2014

  • Special Joint Issue of Radiocarbon and Tree-ring Research in Association with the Center for Mediterranean Archaeology & the Environment (CMATE).

    2014

  • Preface to CMATE Special Issue

    2014

  • Potential for a New Multimillennial Tree-Ring Chronology from Subfossil Balkan River Oaks.

    2014

  • Potential for a new multimillennial tree-ring chronology from subfossil Balkan river oaks

    2014

  • A 250‐year annual precipitation reconstruction and drought assessment for Cyprus from Pinus brutia Ten. tree‐rings

    2014

  • A 250-year annual precipitation reconstruction and drought assessment for Cyprus from Pinus brutia (Ten.) tree-rings

    2013

  • The paleoclimate potential and enigma of Laguna Minucua, Oaxaca, Mexico.

    2013

  • Olive tree-ring problematic dating: a comparative analysis on Santorini (Greece)

    2013

  • Establishment of a high-resolution stratigraphy with the help of dendrochronology-an example from the marine Holocene sequence in the ancient Theodosian Harbour (Istanbul, Turkey)

    2013

  • Environmental and climatic signals from stable isotopes in Anatolian tree rings, Turkey

    2012

  • Dendro-wigglematch placement of an oak tree-ring chronology from mid-first millennium AD Constantinople

    2012

  • Dendroarchaeology of the mid-first millennium AD in Constantinople

    2012

  • An investigation of fire scars in Pseudotsuga macrocarpa by Scanning X-Ray Fluorescence Microscopy

    2011

  • Preliminary soil micromorphological analysis of samples from Sidon, Lebanon

    2011

  • Medieval fishing structures and baskets at Sudbrook Point, Severn estuary, Wales

    2010

  • 14C record and wiggle-match placement for the Anatolian (Gordion area) juniper tree-ring chronologỹ 1729 to 751 cal BC, and typical Aegean/Anatolian (growing season related) regional 14C offset assessment

    2010

  • NATURAL HAZARDS AND THE DENDROCHRONOLOGICAL RECORD

    2010

  • Dendrochemical analysis of a tree-ring growth anomaly associated with the Late Bronze Age eruption of Thera

    2009

  • Dating volcanic eruptions with tree-ring chemistry

    2009

  • Living Under the Shadow. The Cultural Impact of Volcanic Eruptions

    2009

  • G01023-Dendrochemistry of White Mountain bristlecone pines: An investigation via Synchrotron Radiation Scanning X-Ray Fluorescence Microscopy (DOI 10.1029/2008JG000830)

    2009

  • Dendrochemistry of White Mountain bristlecone pines: An investigation via Synchrotron Radiation Scanning X-Ray Fluorescence Microscopy

    2009

  • Dendrochemistry of a tree ring growth anomaly associated with the Thera Eruption

    2009

  • THE LIFE AND DEATH OF A HOME

    2007

  • Dating the submerged forests: Dendrochronology and radiocarbon wiggle-match dating

    2007

  • The Life and Death of a Home: House history in a subsurface feature

    2006

  • Dendrochemical study of Pinus sylvestris from Siljansfors Experimental Forest, Central Sweden.

    2006

  • Could Tree-Ring Chemistry Reveal Absolute Dates for Past Volcanic Eruptions

    2005

  • Tree rings, volcanic eruptions and multi-elemental chemistry: The potential of dendrochemical techniques for the absolute dating of past volcanism

    2005

  • Can tree-ring chemistry reveal absolute dates for past volcanic eruptions?

    2005

  • Tree Rings and Volcanic Eruptions: Reviewing the Potential of Dendrochemistry for the Absolute Dating of Past Volcanism

    2005

  • Volcanic eruptions, tree rings and multielemental chemistry: an investigation of dendrochemical potential for the absolute dating of past volcanism

    2003

  • Environmental catastrophes and recoveries in the Holocene

    2003

  • Soil Geochemical analyses as an indication of metal working at the excavation of a house in the Roman City at Silchester (UK)

    2003

  • Volcanic Eruptions of the Holocene: An Interdisciplinary Approach to a New Methodology for Absolute Dating.

    2002

  • New evidence for an early date for the Aegean Late Bronze Age and Thera eruption,

    2002

  • New evidence for an early date for the Aegean Late Bronze Age and Thera eruption

    2002

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